Bonus Episode: Panel on Invisible Homeless

For most, living in a shelter or on the street is the last resort. As a result, the majority of people experiencing homelessness are “defined out” of accessing aid. In fact, the Department of Housing and Urban Development doesn’t even consider them homeless. Are we obscuring an exponentially larger looming crisis?

On this bonus episode host Jesse Betend and StreetWise Magazine Senior Editor Suzanne Hanney host a live panel to discuss these and other issue’s behind the series. 

Featuring:
Dr. Molly Brown, Assistant Professor of Clinical-Community Psychology and Director of the Homelessness Advocacy, Research, and Collaboration Lab at DePaul University; 

Erin Ryan, Senior Vice President of Operations at The Night Ministry, a social services organization that works with many of Chicago’s most vulnerable homeless citizens; 

And Lee and Paula, who are both StreetWise Magazine Vendors who are currently experiencing homelessness. 

 

Sources: 

The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless’ Estimate of Chicago Homelessness Report

DePaul’s HARC Lab

The Night Ministry

StreetWise